3.9 Signature and citation

Next is the explanation of the commands for processing the text in the body of the message.

The first one is signature. To insert your signature file ("~/.signature") on the cursor point, type ‘C-cTAB’. You can define your own signature file to ‘mew-signature-file’. Setting ‘mew-signature-as-lastpart’ and ‘mew-signature-insert-last’, you can customize the action of ‘C-cTAB’.

‘C-cTAB’

Insert "~/.signature" on the cursor point.

The next one is citation. If you use ‘a’ or ‘A’ in Summary mode, a draft for reply is opened up and Emacs is split into three windows. The top is Summary mode, the middle is Message mode, and the bottom is Draft mode.

Here are the commands for citing text from Message mode to Draft mode.

‘C-cC-y’

Copy and paste a part of a message from Message mode WITH citation prefix and label.

1. Roughly speaking, it copies the body in Message mode. For example, if Text/Plain is displayed, the entire Message mode is copied. If Message/Rfc822 is displayed, the body without the header is copied.
2. If you type ‘C-uC-cC-y’, the header is also copied if exists.
3. If an Emacs mark exists, the target is the region between the mark and the cursor.

‘C-cC-t’

Copy and paste a part of the message from Message mode WITHOUT citation prefix and label.

The default label and prefix is as follows:

From: SUMIKAWA Munechika <sumikawa@ebina.hitachi.co.jp>
Subject: Wine
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:40:50 +0900

> Hi, it's Sumikawa, the guy who's neat from good morning 
> to good night.
>
> Talking about the wonderful wine party, I would propose 
> Cabernet Sauvignon, Bordeaux, '90. 

In Draft mode, you can cite any text displayed in Message mode. So, you can cite text from multiple messages easily. Select a message in Summary mode and display it in Message mode, then cite it in Draft mode. Please repeat this procedure as you like. Triple windows are opened for this purpose.

When highlighting gets wrong, type ‘C-cC-l’ to re-highlight both the header and the body

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